Table 1.
Distribution among various locations of the tsa56 gene sequences of O. tsutsugamushi deposited in the DNA databases, as placed into genotypic classes defined by Kelly et al. (2009) [111].
| Genotype | Cambodia | India | Japan | Korea | Laos | PRC | Taiwan | Thailand | Viet Nam |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karp or Karp related | 11 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 40 | 50 | 19 |
| Jp-1 or Jp-2 | 2 | - | 48 | 6 | - | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
| Saitama | - | - | 7 | 8 | - | - | 4 | - | - |
| Kuroki | - | - | 6 | 214 | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Gilliam | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| TA763 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 30 | 19 | 2 |
| Kawasaki | - | - | 7 | 58 | - | 91 | 2 | - | - |
| JG | 8 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | - |
| JG-v | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | 27 | 22 | 3 |
| Kato | 4 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 10 | 1 | - |
| Kato-v | 2 | 24 | - | - | - | 1 | 16 | 7 | - |
| Shimokoshi | - | - | 9 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Divergent | - | - | 8 | - | - | 5 | - | - | - |
| Total | 29 | 41 | 98 | 300 | 11 | 113 | 142 | 106 | 25 |